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So insulting someone for something they enjoy doing and likely make money off of is better?

The amount of ego and money talk in here coupled with the lack of spelling ability has given me a few lulz.

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Sounds like your friend needs to find a new motor for his car. Even if it was that way before he took it in. He didn't want it re-tuned for the cams, and the shop could revert it blowing rings back to him for doing that. He drove it that way knowing (hopefully) that the car wasn't adjusted properly on the tuning side. He could try and fight it but I really don't see it going anywhere. Kudo's to the shop if they decide to help out a little bit, but I don't see it going anywhere. Just my .02.

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Decent crowd. Lights out is never fun. Still too chilly out for me. I'm more of a fair-weather guy anyway :nod:

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Are you working at the advanced on 23 north if Polaris?

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What's so wrong with Mumford & Sons? :gabe:

I should have been more specific lol. I would love to do it but it and I have skills fitting the carpentry job, just would be difficult with school and third shift. If you had anything just for the summer, or part time third shift, I'd be all over it!

I'm assuming this position is in Grove City as well?

Poverty child knows no brand new taknologie

I was including newer being 2000+. You must not have been involved In CB the night we came to the conclusion I am a poverty child. Anything 10 years old is new to me I guess I was basing my opinions based upon a certain bran of vehicles compared to automobiles as a whole.

If you look at new cars, more and more reverse engineering is wing used. Intakes are restrictive to keep NVH down, as well as exhausts from the factory. I guess I'm confused as to how making a car faster nowdays and making a car faster in the olden days is any different? I mean you still get the same satisfaction either way when you jam the pedal down and feel the difference.

Being a Construction Science major this was a genuine :lolguy: for me

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The advancement of technology may be a good thing... I can agree, some of the newer stuff is insane on sensor's or whatever the case may be, but this is likely the same stuff said back in the mid 90's when EFI was getting to be pretty much universal. I'm sure when the LS engines, hell even the LT engines were first introduced this same exact stuff was said. It's a learning curve and as time goes on, company's and people will find way's around it. Just like we have with everything else. (Ask any VAG owner who has taken advantage of VAGCOM to take away the pesky seatbelt light, DRL's, etc.) I really don't see the Fast and Furious stuff as much as I did even 2 years ago. Maybe it's because I'm younger or just somewhat accustomed to it, but to me it seems like everyone is shying away from that stuff. You're always going to see some car with a body kit, some people just like it. I'm really going to disagree here. The 80's and 90's really didn't give that much that could be easily worked on. Both big flagships from Nissan and Mitsubishi were and still are complete pains in the ass to work on. Having pulled both engines and transmissions from both a TT Z32 and a Stealth RT/TT, I can say neither is very easy at all. -With the Stealth/Vr4's you have insane amounts of vacuum lines, and so much stuff thrown into the bay it's not even funny. I'd say they did a great job with this platform, although every person I've known to own one has had to replace the transmission at one point. -Z32's it's the same deal. As soon as I saw under the hood of a TT Z for the first time my first thought was that it had LESS room than a 4th gen F-Body. I've never heard of many issues with these though.... -Mk3 Supra's, underpowered from the factory, and overloaded. If you were fortunate enough to get a turbo model then it was a little less severe. Head gasket issues plagued these things, along with almost the same HP/Lb ratio of a 454 SS Gm truck of the time. Handling is a joke from the factory. Unless you had the knowledge to either fix the 7M right the first time, or JZ swap it, then you were unfortunately screwed until you did. At least in my experience with mine, it is fairly easy to work on, even with a few aftermarket parts on it, fairly cheap, capable of of making respectable numbers even with the 2J's shadow looming over it, and RWD. Mk4 Supra's- The only true "Supra" in many peoples eyes. Still demand insane prices. One of the best factory built cars IMO of all time. The bottom end has been known of handling 1000+hp stock.. GM Rwd platform- The 3rd gen F-bodys along with the C4 were good for the time, but the LT1/4 shed light on a brighter future, and with the coming of the LSx platform showing in the C5's, GTO's and F-body's, it really set a new bar that was and still is hard to reach. I guess my long winded answer to this is that many people chose these same couple platforms to build on simply because they have been known to make power, and do well with it. Most people want something fun that doesn't really need TOO much work right off the get go to have fun with. No one wants to have to swap a motor to make power, which is why I think those cars were and still are so popular today. It's not like it was back up until the 80's or so when most every car was RWD and came with a variant of a V8. Those may have been the days then but unfortunately they have come and now we must get used to a new spawn of what modding will be about. Not trying to say the old school day's weren't cool at all. If it were possible I would love be alive during the 60's/70's at my age and tinker with some of those toys and see what it was like then. Sucks that I can't because I would honestly prefer it over how things are today (for more reason's than just car's, but for the sake of the thread, I'll leave it at that ) Guess I'll add this in after thinking on this a little more. Back in the day stuff was a little cheaper too. Not just parts but everything. To tune a car all you needed was some know-how and a few simple tools. Now you need a LOT of know-how, a laptop, program to tune with, standalone engine management for some vehicles, wideband, just so much stuff goes into it, mixed with the economy taking a dump, it's hard to really get things like how they used to be I guess.

I vote for you leading the way, Doc! One because those sound like amazing rides, and two...Ducati...'nuff said. As long as dragging a knee here and there is welcome, I'm always in If you or anyone reading this for that matter wants to ride, I am always wanting to ride, and anytime I'm not at work or school I will. I'm not pro by any means, but can keep up with most. Whether your wanting to take it slow or like to drag knee, I'll go with whatever! Just shoot me a PM!

It may be in your opinion, but it is definitely a lot better than most people are capable of. The whole build looks phenomenal, keep up the good work. Excited to see this run!